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Re: Grief!

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On 9/14/2014 21:23, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
> In article <lv5fvs$12r$1@dont-email.me>,
>   Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote:
>
>> Two days of grief, my manifest file with only one line in it:
>>
>> Permissions:         sandbox
>>
>> Java kept rejecting the app as insecure.
>>
>> knute...
>
>  From what I've read in the Oracle bug database, Applet permissions
> essentially don't work any more.  I found this out by needing to get an
> Applet running - only one Java version works despite the Applet being
> correctly built and deployed.
>
> I'd give up on running Java in a browser.  Sun FUBARed the GUI,
> graphics, and security APIs to such an incredible extent that I don't
> expect them to ever recover.  For many cases, the improved APIs
> available to JavaScript produces comparable or better performance.
>

I love your website!  Wish I had found that a couple of weeks ago.  Had 
to find it all the hard way.

Thanks,

-- 

Knute Johnson

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Grief! Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2014-09-14 18:39 -0700
  Re: Grief! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-09-14 21:51 -0400
    Re: Grief! Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-09-15 14:09 -0700
      Re: Grief! Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-09-15 17:32 -0400
        Re: Grief! Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-09-15 15:49 -0700
  Re: Grief! Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2014-09-14 22:14 -0400
  Re: Grief! Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-09-14 21:23 -0700
    Re: Grief! Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-09-15 17:25 +0200
    Re: Grief! Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-09-15 14:13 -0700

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